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common carrier

NOUN
transport or telecommunications company
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As professor Eugene Volokh, one of the originators of the common carrier analogy, explains, what separates entities such as newspapers from entities such as phone companies is whether they produce a “coherent speech product.”

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2024

We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

He then ran through an extended analogy in which Verizon listened to every phone call and cut off any pro-LGBT conversation, ignoring interjections that Twitter simply isn’t a common carrier and the comparison doesn’t apply.

From The Verge • May 13, 2022

Owen Turner, 50, is charged with gross negligence of a person in control of a train and gross negligence of a person having care of a common carrier, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

The railroad partakes of two natures, that of a highway and that of a common carrier.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William



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